unlike mr. beerSTAIN ----- who i conjecture wasn't at the game yesterday (cuz a VIP like mr STAIN only comes to a game when the organ-I-zation rolls out the red carpet and gets him and his wife/kids up to a luxury box with free food/drinks, HDTVs showing whatever reality show is airing on HGTV (for the wife) and then they have a few players sign some stuff for jason (if not even do a proper photo op in a hallway b4 warmup or something) all leading (back) to the limo to-n-fro in order to make it a 100.0% hassle-free live experience for the guy who's going to go on the radio nad preach their gospel ----- i was at the game yesterday.
i can confirm that "the boo birds" were out, but it was only prevalent at the end of the first half when MARC TRESTMAN AND THE TIME MANAGEMENT (the man who's indelibly trestiCOOL has evidently replaced lovie as the lead singer/frontman of "the time management" who are NOW ON TOUR!) was doing shit like not taking a timeout with 1:42 left in 1H. at first i too was like WTF?! but then instead of the TO he compelled them to pick a play and go with it within 40 seconds, thus conserving 2 timeouts for the resulting 4th down and offensive drive.
the maddening part was that the bears got the ball around their own ~30 (i forget if it was one of those punts where they got the ball around midfield and then a phantom/ish illegal block in the back call came and it was back to their 25-30) and then proceeded to casually trot up and run the ball twice in a row, which got the chorus of boos from the "boo birds" because everyone and their mother wanted the bears to go forth and try in earnest to get more pts b4 halftime, because then they'd get the ball to start the 2H and even two FGs would have put them up 2 possessions, which they never bothtered to get up by until the 4th quarter IIRC.
of course on 3rd down cutler completed a nice ~15yd pass and THEN got em up to around midfield b4 burning the final timeout (???) with like 15 seconds left, which led to him throwing a GOD AWFUL INTERCEPTION to the safety or whatever on what looked like an intentional interception because something was up with that play because brandon marshall was emphatically gesturing at the sidelines looking visibly animated all the way up in the 400 level, and then the play went to the left where it totally stuck me like jay threw a ball to a spot to prove a point, however by the time he threw the ball it was fucking obvious that the WR broke left towards the sidelines and not to the right (you had ~15-20secs left and no timeouts.... why the fuck would the WR break inside?) and my guess with marshall is that he had single coverage on him (which he had for a bunch of the game) and brandon was freaking out to change the play and someone overrode him (and cutler?) so jay knew that barring a pick6/big return throwing an INT on that play would just end the half so he made a beyond-god-awful throw to nobody/nowhere and the INT came and that's when the crowd let them have it with the vociferous BOOs heading to halftime.
otherwise, there weren't any boo birds out for the game or whatever else dan will have you believe. idk what the callers are on about, but they're likely in that bernstein demographic of "only idiots go to NFL games, especially in the winter" so while i know one of dan's sacred cows / windmills to slay is the whole "I WAS AT THE GAME SO MY OPINION CARRIES MORE WEIGHT THAN YOURS" and i'm falling into that trap here, i have no idea what the fuck he's talking about in regards to the boo birds.
as for the green bay sucks chants i happen to have a video clip here from 2010 where i capture the essence of the chant. i believe dan mentioned that the GBSUX chant came when you're leaving the stadium, so it'd be in a situation just like my video here. now while my video was leaving the 2010 MNF game where the bears beat the superior packers on a clutch last minute fumble by james jones recovered by urlacher to set up could for a time-expiring GW FG, i can tell you that i've heard GREEN BAY SUCKS chants at other non-packers games.... but that's easily explainable:
yesterday while walking up to the stadium amongst the masses of hundreds upon hundreds of people, i spotted a few GB fans proudly rocking their packers swag on the way in. now when you're walking out of the stadium part of the "charm" of soldier field is that it's an oldschool stadium/site that wasn't designed to accomodate 75k people or whatever teh stadium holds, so when you'e leaving the stadium for the first ~10mins you're invariably walking in a sea of people until you get outside of the confines of the stadium/footprint and then you start branching out in other directions to whatever your mode of transportation is. even then the main arterial paths towards the CTA L trains or the parking lots or the shuttle buses have a ton of people moving in the same general direction, so let's say that someone leaving vikings/bears sees a random person there in a green bay jacket/hat/jersey/whatever... it's not uncommon for one person to start chanting GREEN BAY SUCKS to razz that cheesehead and then akin to wildfire the chant takes off and spreads to tens or sometimes even hundreds of people. i happened to tape that chant up there because i started it while i was waking behind that dude, granted it was OK with bernstein because it was a bears/packers game and the bears had just beat the packers in a game where they had ~18 penalties and a key turnover in the waning minute/s to hand the bears the win.
so yeah, no doubt when everyone was leaving the stadium you had a sitation with a large mass of people compressed into a dense mass of people leaving, many of them are now on the reflective side of an afternoon of drinking (which many started in the AM) and then somebody somewhere likely encountered a random packers fan rocking their packers gear so they started to razz them with the GREEN BAY SUCKS chant and then tens to hundreds of people decided to jump in and chant along with that because even if most of the people don't see the actual dude who caused the chant to start, shit, you dont need that much of an excuse to get people to do those inherently catchy 3 syllable chants, especially when it refers to the packers who are our loathsome rivals who happen to be completely superior to us in just about every facet of the game of football except for the part where they're up there in "the toilet that is known as brown county, wisconsin" - les grobstein and we're "waking up in or around the greatest city in the world, chicago illinois" - more grobstein
so yeah, in this case i'd imagine that a card carrying member of the b&b ALS was leaving the game (like the idiot that they are) and caught win of one of those random GREEN BAY SUCKS chants and didn't see the packers fan/s that likely caused the chant to begin and decided that THEY'D BETTER REPORT TO BERNSTEIN about these DUMBASS MEATBALLS making these chants when, uh, *scoffs* the packers just so happen to be starting off another 50+pts beatdown of a much superior opponent this time around (altho it has to be said that you can only get away with starting mark sanchez for a certain amount of time before the whole "you're starting mark fucking sanchez" thing catches up with you, even if you're a newschool transcendental football/offensive genius like chip kelly seems like he very well could be (look at what he was able to do with nick foles and later MARK FUCKING SANCHEZ at QB)
so yeah its prolly like that one time that i was giving some shit to schmutzie on twitter and after a few up and backs he decided that he had enough of my 'cracking wise' and dragged in @dan_bernstein in a tweet like he was reporting my misbehavior to the teacher because hey, i officially had his attention (my heart skipped a beat and i clenched up and started to nervously sweat, so thank god i had 15 napkins left over in my pockets cuz i was only using ~5 for drugs) because HOLY SHIT I HAD @SCHMUTZIE'S ATTENTION WHICH DOESNT HAPPEN EVERY DAY, IF NOT JUST ONCE IN A LIFETIME BECAUSE WHEN YOU KNOW THAT @SCHMUTZIE IS READING YOUR TWEETS IT'S TIME TO TAKE OFF THE TRAINING WHEELS AND SNAP ON THE HELMET BECAUSE
YOU ARE IN THE BIG LEAGUES, KID.
and i can only imagine what kind of shitheaded little turd experiences this organic bears fan moment while leaving a game and thinks "LOL WAT? GREEN BAY DOESN'T SUCK IN FACT THEY BEAT US 55-14 LAST WEEK AND THEY'RE ALREADY UP 21-3 OR SOMETHING RIGHT NOW! OMFG I'D BETTER TELL BERNSTEIN SO HE CAN SHAME ALL OF THESE MEATBALLS INTO SUBMISSION BECAUSE LIKE OH MY GOD DUDE GREEN BAY SOOO TOTALLY DOESNT' SUCK!"
and yeah you know that everyone knew that one dorky kid growing up who was all anal retentive like "UH NO [WHATEVER] DOESN'T SUCK IN FACT [STATS/EVIDENCE/ETC PROVING OTHERWISE" SO U ARE WRONG and i swear to god that kid ended up down a few cookies, if not a whole lunch.... or he got more intimately acquainted with his underwear via his asscrack or even got a free shower courtesy of the school toilets cuz like.... comeon dude. it's human nature you're dealing with here. even if the "intelligent" bears fan doesn't engage in "meatballism" ---- you're in a sea of bears fans and newsflash 99% of people are inherently average and normal and therefore at least harboring meatballish tendencies.... and as such GREEN BAY SUCKS chants happen fairly often because there's ALWAYS some wisconsonite who gets dragged to a bears game cuz "hey its free for me" so they go out of their way to represent the pack and then when they're leaving the stadium people have this innate desire to let them know where they are.
and call it a hunch they're not in their g-mail app e-mailing bernstein like OMFG DAN GET A LOAD OF THIS! THESE PEOPLE ARE SUCH IDIOTS AMIRITE?!?!
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